Constitutional Absolutists
by digby
Wouldn’t you think that someone could do something with this?
Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee killed an amendment by Rep. Mike Quigley (D-IL) that would have closed the so-called “terror gap” — preventing firearm sales to suspected terrorists. GOP members want to protect the right of people on the FBI’s terrorist watch list to purchase firearms, arguing that preventing sales would “steal the Second Amendment rights of those placed on the list by mistake.”
The Second Amendment is literally the only one of the Bill of Rights they really care about. The rest are to be used a conveniences when necessary and ignored when not.
Imagine if they were this hard core about the Fourth Amendment? Imagine if anyone was?
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